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The epitaphs in the following pages were copied by the compilers 
themselves. Great care has been taken to preserve the spelling 
and punctuation of the originals. They deem it unnecessary to 
mention each separate work, which they have consulted in the pre- 
paration of the biographical notices. Suffice it to say, that wherever 
they have found anything of interest, relating to their subject, they 
have freely made use of it. 



EPITAPHS 



In the old barying-ground at Upham's Corner, Dorchester, 
Mass., can be found the most ancient tomb-stone inscriptions in 
the United States, those at Jamestown, Va., alone being excepted. 
When the yard was laid out, in 1634, it contained but five square rods, 
but after several enlargements, it now embraces an area of about 
three acres, in which over six thousand bodies have been interred. 
The first burial there took place in 1638, but the original stone, which 
marked the spot has long since disappeared, and is now replaced by 
one of comparatively recent date. The oldest stone now in the 
yard, is over the graves of two children, and bears the two following 
epitaphs i — 

AEEL.HIS.OFFERING.ACCEPTED.IS. 
HIS.BODY.TO.THE.GRAVE.HIS.SOVLE.TO.BLIS. 
ON.OCTOBERS.TWENTYE.AND.NO.MORE. 
IN.TIE.yEARE.SIXTEEN.HVNDRED.44. 



SVBMITE.SVBMITTED.TO.HER.HEAVENLY.KING. 
BEING.A.FLOWEROF.THAT..ETERNAL.SPRING. 
NEARE.3.YEARS.OLD.SHE.DYED.IN.HE.^VEN.T0.WAITE. 
THE.YEARE.WAS.SIXTEEN.HVNDRED.4S. 



HEARE.LYES.OVR.CAPTAINE.AND.MAIOR.OF.SVFFOLK.WAS.WITHALL. 

A.GODLY.MAOISTRATE.WAS.HE.AND.MAIOR.GENERALL. 

TWO.TROVPS.OF.IIORS.WITH.HIME.HERE.CAME.SVCH.WORTH.HIS.LOVE.DID.CRAVE. 

TEN.COMPANYES.OF.FOOT.ALSO.MOVRNING.MARCHT.TO.HIS.GRAVE. 

LET. ALL. THAT.READ.BE.SVRE.TO.KEEP.TIIE. FAITH. AS.HE.HATH.DON. 

WITH.CHRIST.HE.LIVES.NOW.CROWND.HIS.NAME.WAS.HVMPRY.ATHERTON. 

HE.DYED.THE.16.0F.8BrTEMsBR.lOjl. 



6 Kl'ITAI'HH. 

Before he left England, Humphrey Atherton married a young 
woman, whose name is unknown, when their united ages amounted 
to less than twenty-nine years. 

It is not positively known when he came to this country. Charles 
H. Atherton, one of his descendants, says, that he arrived at Bos- 
ton, in 1631, on board the ship James, Capt. Taylor, but Mr. Drake 
in his work, entitled, " Result of some Kesearehes among the British 
Archives for Information relative to the Founders of New Eng- 
land," does not mention such a vessel, as having left England, either 
in that year or the year before. It is supposed that he came from 
Preston, in Lancashire, as persons named Atherton were to be 
found there as late as 1780. 

The first authentic fact in his history, which we possess, is that 
he was admitted a freeman, at Dorchester, May 2, 1638. The same 
year, the second of the existence of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, he became one of its members, and continued as 
such to the time of his death, serving at different periods as Ensign, 
Lieutenant, and Captain, which last office he held twice, in 1650 and 
in 1658. He was the earliest representative from Dorchester, 
to the General Court, whither he was first sent in 1638, and to which 
the same town afterwards elected him nine times, the last being 
1651. lu 1659, while representing Springfield, he became Speaker, 

He was the originator of the first Trainband in Dorchester, 
commanded for sometime the Suffolk Regiment, and upon the death 
of Sedgwick, in 1656, succeeded him in his rank of Major General, 
the highest military office in the colony. In 1644 he went to Nar- 
ragansett, with Captains Johnson and Cooke, to arrest and try 
Samuel Gorton, for heresy. He led several expeditions against the 
Narragansett Indians, and when at length they became subject to 
Massachusetts, he was often appointed to collect their tribute of 
wampum. To complete the catalogue of honors bestowed upon 
him ; he was Town Treasurer and several times Selectman in 
Dorchester. 

Among his personal friends was Miles Standish, whose name has 
been rendered immortal by Longfellow. 

Atherton, as a believer in witches, felt it to be a duty which he 
owed to God and to his Country to mete out to the poor creatures, 
against whom accusations were brought, the punishment, which, in 
his opinion, they so richly merited. As assistant, a position which 
he occupied during the last oiglit years of liis life, he was instrumen- 



EPITAPHS. 7 

tal in bringing about the execution of Mrs. Hibbins, who was hung 
for witchcraft, June 19, 1656. This was probably the second mur- 
der in New England, for the same imaginary crime. 

A fall from his horse was the cause of his death. Concerning 
him, Johnson says, "altho he be slow of speech, yet is he down 
right for the business' — one of a cheerful spirit, and intire for his 
country." The Quakers thought differently. They had been sub- 
jected to much persecution at his hands, and they believed his hor- 
rible death to be (rod's visitation of wrath. Besse says, " Humfray 
Adderton, who at the trial of Wenlock Christison, did, as it were, 
bid defiance to Heaven, by saying to Wenlock, 'You pronounce 
Woes and Judgements, and those that are gone before you pro- 
nounced Woes and Judgements ; but the Judgements of the Lord 
Grod are not upon us yet,' was suddenly surprised : having beeu, 
on a certain day, exercising his men with much pomp and ostenta- 
tion, he was returning home in the evening, near the place where 
they usually loosed the Quakers from the cart, after they had 
whipped them, his horse, suddenly affrighted, threw him with such 
violence, that he instantly died ; his eyes being dashed out of his 
bead, and his brains coming out of his nose, his tongue hanging out 
at his mouth, and the blood running out at his ears : Being taken 
up and brought into the Court-house, the place where he had been 
active in sentencing the innocent to death, his blood ran through 
the floor, exhibiting to the spectators a shocking instance of the 
Divine vengeance against a daring and hardened persecutor ; that 
made a fearful example of that divine judgment, which, when fore- 
warned of, he had openly despised, and treated with disdain." 



D. O. M: SACER 

RICHARDUS HIC DORMIT MATHERUS. 

(SED NEC TOTUS NEC NORA DIUTURNA) 

L^TATUS GENUISSE PARES. 

INCERTUM EST UTRUM DOCTIORAN MELIOR. 

ANIMUM & GLORIA NGN QUEUNT HUMARI. 

DIUINELY RICH & LEARNED RICHARD MATHER : 

SONS LIKE HIM PROPHETS GREAT REIOICD THIS FATHER 

SHORT TIME HIS SLEEPING DUST HERES COUERD DOWN 

NOT HIS ASCENDED SPIRIT OR RINOWN. 

U. D. M IN ANG. 1« ANS. IN DORC: N. A. 34 ANS. 

GET. APR. 22. 1669. ^T:SU^ 73. 



8 EPITAPHS. 

Richard Mather, son of Thomas and Margaret Mather, was born 
at Lowton, Parish of Winwick, Lancashire, England, in 1596. 

When only fifteen years of age, he had made such progress in his 
studies that he was entrusted with the care of a public school at 
Toxteth Park, near Liverpool. During the geven years which he 
devoted to school-teaching, he fitted several young men for Oxford, 
and finally went to the University himself, and was entered a stu- 
dent at Brazen Nose College, May 9, 1618. He had been there 
but a few months, when in response to an invitation from his old 
friends at Toxteth, he became their pastor. lie preached his first 
sermon, Nov. 30, 1618, 

In 1626 he married Catherine, daughter of Edmund Holt. 

He was suspended from his ministry in Aug., 1633, for non con- 
formity to the rules of the established church. Having been re- 
stored the following November, he was again suspended the next 
year, this time for not wearing the surplice. 

In quest of that religious freedom which was denied him in the 
land of his birth, he came to New England, in 1635. On the 25th 
of October, of that year, he and his wife became members of the 
Church in Boston. Soon after this, he received three almost simul- 
taneous invitations to settle as minister in as many different towns, 
Plymouth, Roxbury and Dorchester. By the advice of John Cotton 
and others of his friends, he went to Dorchester, and was made 
teacher of the first church there, Aug. 23, 1636. 

In 1639, assisted by Thomas Welde and John Eliot, of Roxbury, 
he made the New England Version of the Psalms. 

Ilis wife died in 1655, and he married in less than a year after, 
Sarah the widow of John Cotton. 

He had six sons, all by his first wife, the first four of whom were 
born in England ; the others in Dorchester. They were as follows : 

Samuel, born May 13, 1626 ; came to this country with his 
father; graduated at Harvard College, 1643 ; was made first fellow 
of the university, and such was the esteem in Avhich he was held by 
the students, that when he left them they wore mourning ; preached 
sometime at Rowley as assistant to Mr. Rogers, and afterwards 
had charge of the North Church, in Boston for one winter; in 1650, 
returned to England and became chaplain of Magdalen College ; 
was senior fellow of Trinity College, and minister of the Church of 
St. Nicholas, in Dublin ; soou after the restoration, was unjustly sus- 
pended on a charge of sedition, and returning to England, preached 



EPITAPHS. 9 

at Burton Wood, till ejected by the Bartholomew Act, 1662 ; from 
this time until his death, preached before a church, gathered at his 
own house. 

Timothy. 

Nathaniel, born at Lancaster, Mar. 20, 1630; graduated at 
Harvard College, 1647. After his return to England, Oliver 
Cromwell, in 1656, presented him with a living at Barnstaple. After 
the restoration he was ejected from his ministry. He died in London, 
July 26, 1697, after preaching forty-seven years in England, Ire- 
land and Holland. 

Joseph. 

Eleazar, born May 13, 1637 ; graduated at Harvard, 1656 ; or- 
dained minister of Northampton, Mass., June 23, 1661, and died 
July 24. 1669 ; married a daughter of John Warham, sometime 
minister of Dorchester, and afterwards of Windsor, Connecticut. 

Increase, born June 21, 1639; graduated, H, C, 1656; 
ordained as minister of the North church in Boston, May 27, 1669 ; 
was President of Harvard University, from 1685 to 1701, when he 
resigned ; was agent in the Mother Country for procuring a 
new charter, which he obtained from William and Mary, in 1691 ; 
married Maria, daughter of John Cotton ; was the author of about 
a hundred printed books. 



Ye.EPITAPH.OF.WILLIAM.POLE.WIIICII.HER.IIEMSELF 
MADE.WHILE.IIE.WAS.YET.LIUINa.IN.REMEMBRA\OE.OF 
HIS.OWN.DEATH.A.LEFT.IT.TO.BE.INGRAVEN.ON.HIS 
TOMIi.YT.SO.BEINaDEAD.HE.MIGHT.WARN.POSTERITY 
OR.A.RESEMBLAXCE.OF.A.DEAD.MAN.P.ESPEAKING.Ye.READER 
HO.PASSENGER.TIS.WORTH.THY.PAINES.TOO.STAY 
A.TAKE.A.DEAD.MANS.LESSON.BY.Ye.WAY 
I.WAS.WHAT.XOW.THOU.ART.A. THOU.SHALT.be 

what.i.am.now.what.odds.twix.me.&.thee 

N0W.60.THY.WAY.BUT.ST.\Y.TAKE.0NE.W0RD.M0RE 
THY.STAF.FOR.OUGHT.THOU.KNOWEST.STANDS.NEXT.Ye.DORE 
death. IS.YE.DORE.YEA.DORE.OF.nEAVEN.OR.nELL 
BE.WARND.EE.ARMED.BELIUE.REPENT.FARE WELL. 

A tablet on the side of his tomb has the following : — 

HERE.LIETH.BURIED.Ye.BODY.OF 
Me.WILLIAM.POOLE.AGED.SI.YEARS 
Wn().DIED.YE.2.^)TH.OF.FEBRUARY.IN 
Ye.YERE.KjTI. 



10 EPITAPHS. 

William Poole acted as Town Clerk of Dorchester, upwards of 
forty years. He also taught school for some time. 

Ebenezer Clapp, Esq., the author of a History of Dorchester, has 
in his possession the original " account and memorandum book of 
Elder Saml. Clap, the oldest son of Capt. Roger Clap." 

We have kindly been permitted by the owner to transcribe from 
it, the two following versions of this same epitaph, both of which 
were also written by Pole himself. 

"Mr William Pole his epitaph made by his owne hand who died, 
the. 24. of the. 12. mo : 1674. 

"Hoe Ciirths Inhabitant : its worth thy ftay 

to take a dead mans lefFon by the way 

I was, what now thou art ; and thou flialt bee 

what I am now : thy feif, behold in niee 

Death will be greuious when thou com'st to dy 

the way to eafe it, is to learne to dy 

sin is the sting of death :* 

dy firft to fin, and death no hurt can doe 

now goe thy way ; but ftay : take one word more 

thy ftaff for ought thou know'st, ftands next the dore 

death is the dore, yea dore of huau'n or hell 

be warn'd, be arm'd, beleeue, repent, farewell. 

W . P: 

Hoe pafsenger : tis worth thy pains to ftay 

and take a dead mans lefson by the way 

time was I wiis what now thou art, and thou 

another day f halt bee what I am now 

now goe thy way : but ftay, take one word more 

thy Stafe for ought thou know'st ftands next the dore 

death is the dore, yea dore of heauen or hell 

be warn'd : be arm'd : beleefe : repent, fare well 

W. P." 



The Puritans are dead I 
One venerable head 
Pilluws below, 
His grave is with ns seen 
'Neath Summer's georgeous green 
And Autumn's golden sheeu 
And Winter's suow. 



* The manuscript is here illegible. 



EPITAPHS. 11 

In Memory of 
Dea. NICHOLAS CLAP, 

one of the early settlers of Dorchester. 

He came to New England about 1633, and died 

Nov. 24, 1679 ; aged 67 years. His descendants, 

to whom he left the best of all patrimony, 

the exiiiiiple of a benevolent — 

industrious and christian 

life ; 

erect this stone to his memory 170 years 

after his decease. 

His Piety, 
His constancy in virtue and in trutli, 
These on tradition s tongue shall live ; tJiese shcil 

F rom Sire to (Son be haixled dowa 
To latest time. 



THE 

INGENIO US 

Matheraaticiau & printer 

Mr, JOHN FOSTER, 

AGED 33 YEARS DYED SEPTR. 9tH: 

16 8 1 



April, 16 8 1. 
/. 31. Astra CoHs Vivens Moriens, snper Aethera FosieVy 
pj. F, Scande, precor ; Coelum, Metiri disce supremum. 
3£etior, atque meum est : Emit mihi dives. Testis : 
Nee leneor Quicquam, nisi Graies, solvere — 



(Upon the foot-stone,) 

Mu. 

JOHN FOSTER 

Ars iLLi SUA Census Erat — 

ovin, 
Sjkili, was hjs cash. 



12 EPITAPHS. 

Hopestill Foster came from England in the Elizabetli, William 
Stagg Master. He arrived at Boston in 1635, at the age of four- 
teen. Among his twenty-seven fellow-passengers was jMary Bates, 
a young woman three years his senior, wliom he afterwards married. 
John, their second son, was baptized Dec. 10, 1648. He was grad- 
uated at Harvard College in 1667. 

Prior to 1674, there had been but one printing-press in N. E., that 
at Cambridge, controlled by the University, but in that year, it was 
granted by the General Court, that one might be set up elsewhere, 
and accordingly John Foster was made " Comptroller " of one es- 
tablished at Boston. Although he had charge of this press, he was 
not himself a practical printer. 

Thomas, in his history of the Art of Printing, says that the 
earliest book emanating from his press, which he has seen, bears the 
date, 1676 : the latest, 1680. 

A pamphlet by John Eliot, entitled "A brief Answer to a small 
Book written by John Norcot, against Infant Baptism," etc., with 
Foster's imprint as follows, " Boston, Printed by John Foster, 
1679," recently brought two hundred and fifty dollars, one of which, 
that of 1681, at an auction in New York City. 

He calculated and published several almanacs, annexed to that of 
1681, was a " 7>issertation on Comets," from his own pen. 

He was the designer of the arms of Massachusetts. In 1679 he 
became a member of the Artillery (jomjtany. 

The following English version of his epitaph, is given by Thomas. 
Thou, Foster, who on earth did'st study the heavenly bodies, now 
ascend above the firmanent, and survey the highest heaven. I do 
survey and inhabit this divine region. To its possession I am ad- 
mitted through the grace of Jesus : and to pay the debt of gratitude, 
I hold the most sacred oblisration. 



Here lyes interred ye body 
Of Mr. James Humfrey, here- 
to-fore One of ye Buling 
Elders of Dorchester ; Who 
departed this life ye 12th. 

of May 1686 ; in ye 
78th. year of his age. 



EPITAPHS. 13 



I nclos'd within this Shrine is Precious Dust, 
A nd only waits for th' Rising of the Just. 
M ost uselull while he LivM Adoin'd his station, ~| 
E ven to old Age serv'd his Genoration : > 

S ince his Decease tho't of with Veneration. j 

H ow great a Blessing this Ruling Elder he, 

U nto this Church <fe Town & Pasioes Three? 

IM ATHER he first did by him Help receiue, 

F LINT he did nixt his Burthen much relieue: 

R enowned DANl^'ORTH. did he Assist with Skill.) 

E steemed High hy all : Bear Fruit untill V 

Y ielding to Death his Glorious Seat did Fill. J 



James Humphrey was admitted freeman at Dorchester, 1645. In 
his will he expressed a wish to be buried in the same tomb with his 
friend Richard Mather, but, as the tomb was not sufficiently large to 
receive another body, he was interred near by. 



(lULIELMUS STOUGHTONUS Armiger, 

Provinciae Mafsachusettensis In Nova Anglia Legatus, 

deinde Gubernator ; 

Nec-non Curiae in eadem Provincia Superioris 

Justiciarius Capitalis, 

Hie laeet. 

Vir Conjugij Nescius, 

lleligione 8anctus, 

Virtute Clarus, 
Doctrina Celebris, 
Ingenio Acutus, 
Sanguine & Animo pariter Illustris, 
^quitatis Amator, 
Legum Propugnator, 
Collegij Stoughtoniani Fundator. 
Literarum & Literatorum Fautor Celeberrimus, 
Irapietatis & Vitij Hostis iVcerrimus. 
Hunc Rhetores amant Facundum, 
Hunc Scriptores norunt Elegantem, 
Hune Philosophi qua^runt Sapientem, 
Hunc Pij A^enerantur Austerum, 
Hune Omnes Mirantur ; Omnibus Ignotum, 
Omnibus Licet Notum. 
Quid Plura Viator ! Quern perdidimus 
Stoughtonum ! 
Heu ! 
Satis dixi Urgent Lachrymae, 
Sileo. 
Yixit Annos Septuagenta ; 
SeptiiiKi di(^ Jiilij Anno Salutis 1701 
Cecidit. 
Heu I Heu I Qualis Jjuctus I 



14 RPITAPHS. 

A tablet on the side of the tomb reads as follows : — ■ 

Stoughton Monument 

repaired by 

Harvard College 

mdcccxxviii. 



William Stoughton, son of Col. Israel Stoughton, who command- 
ed the Massachusetts Troops in the Pequot War, graduated at 
Harvard in 1650, and went to England where he became a fellow of 
New College, Oxford. After preaching in Sussex County, he re- 
turned to New England. In 1671, he was made assistant, and held 
the same office several times subsequently. 

He was Author of the Election Sermon of 1668, the best ever 
preached in Massachusetts. 

In 1677 he sailed again for the Old Country, as agent of Massa- 
chusetts Colony. 

In 1687 he was one of Sir Edmund Andros' Council. He was 
Lieut. Governor of Mass. from 1694 to 1699, and from 1700 to 
1702, occupying the gubernatorial chair during a portion of toe time. 

He was commander-in-chief five years, beginning 1694. He was 
a liberal benefactor of Harvard (-ollege, and Stoughton Hall was 
built at his expense in 1698. /. mong other bequests to the same 
institution, was property, the income of which was to be applied to 
the education of students from Dorchester. 

In 1692, as judgo, he tried several witches. To show in what 
esteem Savage held him, we quote from Mr. Drakes "Annals of 
W^itcheraft " as follows : — 

"A cotemporary says he is sure that most of the charges in those 
indictments ' would be better laid against the judges in the Oyer 
and Terminer ' for that these judges served if they did not wor- 
ship the Devil, and took him to be their God, whether they signed 
liis book or not. Had that book been brought into court, as it 
ought to have been, or the Government called on to show, at least, 
what means they had used to get the precious record to the open 
view of the jury, the name of William Stoughton, and more than 
one of his associate judges, I doubt not, as clearly as that of any 
of the accused, would have flare<l in tlie sapphire blaze.' " 



EPITAPHS. 1 5 

The following which is nearly a literal translation of this epitaph, 
is copied from Clapp's History of Dorchester. 

Here lies 

William Stoughton, Esquire 

Lieutenant, afterwards Governor 

Of the Province of Massachusetts in New EnghxnJ , 

Also 

Chief Judge of the Superior Court 

In the same Province. 

A man to Wedlock unlinowu. 

Devout in Religion, 

Renowned for Virtue, 

Famous for Erudition, 

Acute in Judgement, 

Equally illustrious by Kindred and Spirit, 

A lover of Equity, 

A defender of the Laws, 

Founder of Stoughton Hall, 

A most Distinguished Patron of Letters and Literary Men, 

A most Strenuous Opponent of Impiety and Vice. 

Rhetoricians delight in him as Eloquent, 

Writers are acquainted with him as Elegant, 

Philosophers seek him as Wise 

Doctors honor him as a Theologian, 

The Devoted revere him as Grave, 

All admire him ! unknown by all, 

Yet known to All. 

What need of more Traveller? Whom have we lost ! 

Stoughton ! 

Alas ! 

I have said sufficient ; tears press, 

I keep silence. 

He lived seventy years; 

On the seventh of July, in 

the year of Safety 1 701 , 

He Died. 
Alas! Alas! What Grief ! 



IG EPITAPHS. 



HERE LYES Ye BODY 
OF MIRIAM WOOD 

FORMERLY WIFE TO JOHN SMITH 

AGED 73 YEARS 

DIED OCTOBEY Ye 19tli. 

1706 

A Woman well belov'd of all 
hei- neighbours ; for her care of fniall 
Folks education ; their number being great, 
that when fhe dy'd fhe fcarcely left her mate. 
So Wife, Difcreet, was her behaviours 
that fhe was AVell esteem'd by neighbours. 
She liv'd in love with all to dye. 
so let her reft to Eternaty. 



This grave was dug and finished 
in the year 1833, 

by 

Daniel Davenport 

when he had been Sexton 

In Dorchester, 

twenty seven years, 

had attended 1135 funerals 

and duo; 734 graves. 



As Sexton, Avith my spade I learned, 

To delve beneath the sod. 
Where body to the earth returned. 

But spirit to its God. 
Years twenty-seven this toil I bore, 
And midst deaths oft was spared ; 
Seven hundred graves and thirty-four 
I dug, then mine prepared. 



EPITAPAS. 1 ( 

And when, at last, I too must ilic. 

Some else the bell will toll ; 
As here my mortal relics lie. 
May heaven receive my soul. 
He died December 24, 1860, 
aged 87 years 6 mos. lit days. 
He buried from INlarch 3, 180(5 
to May 12, 1852 
One thousand eight hundred & thirty-seven 
Persons. 

William Davenport, a son of Daniel, was also a sexton. He died 
in his fortieth year, after having buried twelve hundred and sixty- 
seven persons. 



GEORGE HOWARD CLARK, 

died at Falmouth, A a. 

Feb. 15, 1862, 

aged 30 years, 

9 months, 9 days. 

Member of 11th Regt. Co. K. 

Mass. Vol. 

Gone, Init not forgotten. 



PRO 
PATRIA 

TO the memory of 
BENJAMIN STONE, Ju. 

captain of Dorchester co. k. 

11th. Keg't. Mass. vols, 
who after sixteen months 

of arduous service, 

was wounded at the second 

Bull Kun battle, 

and died at Washington 

sept. 10, 18G2, 

in the 45tli. year of his age, 

this Tablet is erected 
by his sorrowing townsmen. 



18 EPITAPHS. 



AS a citizen, 

respected and beloved throngli life. 

lamented in his early death 

as a self-devoted patriot-soldier. 



TO the Memory of 
Sergt. I. HALL 
STIMPSON, 
CO. c, 13th, Regiment, 

Mass vol's., 

who was wounded at 

the Battle of Antietam, 

sept. 17th, and died 

at Hagerstown. Md. 

oct. 8th, 1862, 

^^t. 23 yr's. 

"/ have heen upheld through 
all this pain and sufferimj hy 
that ever kind God and tender 
Father, rvhovi you ahvays iaiujht 
wc to love and venerated 



WTLLTAM KDWAED IJLAKE, 

])ied at Falmouth, va. 

Dec. 21, 1862, 

aged 20 years, 1 month, 

13 da vs. 
Member of the 11th. Regt. 
CO. K. Mass. vol. 

He is not dead, but slcopeth. 



EPITAPHS. 19 

Sergeant 

HARRISON GLOVER, 

of Co. G, 56tli. Mass. Regt. 

son of Thomas 0. 

and Elizabeth B. Glover, 

wounded before Petersburg, 

Virginia, 

died in Hospital 

on David's Island, 

New York Harbor, 

August 31, 1864, 

aged 20 years. 



In the midst of Life we are in Death. 

She bent her steps at twilights peaceful hour 
To worship God, and his rich grace implore; 
A higher boon than that she sought was given. 
The gate she entered proved the gate of Heaven 
Scarce had her willing feet the threshold prest 
Ere she was summoned to her final rest 



Her hands left the Bible wide open. 
To tell us the road she had trod. 
With way-marks like footsteps to tell us 
The path she had gone up to God. 



Lively I walked lifes journey through 

Till I arrived at Eighty-two; 
Then calm descended here to rest 
I« hopes to be forever blest. 



20 EPITAPHS. 

Serene I walked Fifth's journey or'e 
Till I arriv'd at eiglity-fo«r 
Then calm descended here to rest 
In hopes to be forever blest. 



How very ffew like me survive 
And reach the age of eighty-flve ; 
liong time I trcnl this vale of tears. 
Till bending with a weight of years ; 
I calmly sunk into the grave. 
Trusting almighty power to save. 



On the 2 1st of March 

God's angels made a sirche 

Around the dove they stood; 

They took a maid 

It is said] 

And cut her down like wood. 



In " Gleanings from the Curious," the above epitaph is said to 
be from this cemetery. Although no such inscription now exists in 
the yard, it is not unlikely that at one time it was to be found there. 



SACRED 

To the Memory of 
* * * 
Affliction sore long time she bore. 
Physicians wei'e in vain. 
Till God did please that death should seize. 
And ease her of her pain. 

Also op 
MARY E. ROBINSON 

ORAND- DAUDHTER of the ABOVE. 



EPITAPHS. 21 

" She looked well to the ways of her household, 
And ate not the bread of idleness." 

Proverbs Slst, 27. 



' An honest man's the noblest work of God. 



For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 



Blest are the dead that die in the Lord. 
According to his holey word. 



My husband has left a wife to mourn his loss. 
Jesus wept. 



N. B. — She was formerly the wife of Mr. John Capen. 



A stranger to ofience 
and inward storm. 



"She hath done 
what she could." 



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